This has been an extremely warm week, and I don’t really do well with warmth, so I’ve been doing my best staying hydrated, which works well most days, except for the weekend when I am out walking, I’m not really liking to carry around a lot of stuff, so I leave my backpack at home, which means I’m getting dehydrated, but well, we do our best.

Books

I’ve been struggling a bit with “Fair trade” since it’s extremely swingy, some of the parts I’ve found really good and I love those part, then to crash into some weird politics between rich people that I don’t really understand and care about, and then it crashes into being a struggle again, now I’m at the 90% mark, so I guess I will fininsh it today, and I really hope the next one will be less swingy, and since it’s back in the main timeline I have enough grounding that I feel that will not be an issue.

Games

I’m still in a middle phase with games where I don’t really know what I want, I was playing a tiny bit more of Ori and the will of the wisps, but I don’t really like the combat focus that it has. But I think at least I have clocked why it bothers me so much with ori, and not in the castlevania games, I think it might have to do with it feeling more like just an obstacle in Ori, you get nothing really for defeating the enemies, other than maybe some currency and some healing items, while in castlevania you always get xp that makes you stronger, or you get some kind of slotmachine item, or something that makes it at least worth it to do the fights. I have the same problem with Hollow Knight, just even more there because the fights are even more laborious than they are in Ori.

I picked “the Messenger” back up over the weekend, and I have really loved this one, the graphics are just in the sweet spot for what I like, the sound track is great, and I seem to be more patient with it this time than the last time that I played this, it’s really a fun game, and the movement just feels great. The last time I stopped playing when it moved over to the more metroidvania built up maps, but I think this time I will persivere. But let’s see, maybe I will finally finish this one.

Podcasts

I’ve been rejiggering my podcasts a bit this week, for some reason which I’m not quite clear about “opening arguements” a law podcast that I’ve been listening to for years, but this week I found that it’s just not interesting, it has been way too much American stuff in all my feeds lately, and this isn’t funny or at least have some kind of lightening to it, so it has to go, I still have the feed in case they have some single episodes worth listening to, but it’s out of the I listen to every episode rotation.

I’ve been mostly liking gaming podcasts this week, which kind of fits into my mood, all the politics gets to be a bit much, so I keep to the ones that at least have a bit of humor, or the very left ones who dares to actually be upset and annoyed about things.

Funny thing I have noticed is that everything that I listened to who was made by more centrist people have slowly left its place in my feed, the thing is I can’t really deal with people excusing stupid stuff any more, I’m not in a place where I think building bridges is the right thing.

Let’s see, I think this week will be a bit better, having eradicated some more stuff that makes me not in a great mood, maybe it will help a bit.